Will to Live

We went and we got off at this place called Oyama. That's when we landed in the Oyama Camp. We thought that things were bad in Hong Kong. By the time we were in Oyama a month, I was there two years, we were praying to Christ we were back in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was bad, until we got to Oyama, then we changed our minds. The healthier crew of the works, you went to the mines, they... light duty men all worked in the factory. And then us fellows, I worked in mines the whole two years. You would haul ten loads a day of ore and dump down there. So if you do ten loads this week every day, you couldn't quit until you did ten. If you did ten yesterday, you gotta do ten today, either that or else. So if you can do it for this week well then next week you can do 11. So next week, if you do 11, and they threaten you and everything, you did ten, you can do 11. So next week if you do 11, then you can go do 12, and there ain't no end to it. They'll have you doing 112. We worked! It's unbelievable how much work a human being can do when we were as skinny as we were. We were skeletons walking around with skin pulled over us and we still worked like slaves. If you didn't, you died. I'm here.